Depression

Mental health: How can your community pharmacist help?

Approximately 20 percent of Americans live with a mental illness and 16.7 percent of people living in the United States take a medication for a mental health condition. Most of these medications work best when taken every day. However, people with mental health conditions have lower rates of taking medications as prescribed. Community pharmacists are the most accessible health care professionals and are well positioned to positively impact mental health.

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month

Every nine seconds, someone in the United States sustains a brain injury. And every day, 137 people die in the United States because of a TBI-related injury. Learn the symptoms.

Mental health: How can your community pharmacist help?

Approximately 20 percent of Americans live with a mental illness and 16.7 percent of people living in the United States take a medication for a mental health condition. Most of these medications work best when taken every day. However, people with mental health conditions have lower rates of taking medications as prescribed. Community pharmacists are the most accessible health care professionals and are well positioned to positively impact mental health.

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month

Every nine seconds, someone in the United States sustains a brain injury. And every day, 137 people die in the United States because of a TBI-related injury. Learn the symptoms.

TUESDAY, Jan. 15, 2019 -- People who develop type 2 diabetes before they turn 40 are twice as likely to be hospitalized for mental illness as those who develop the blood sugar disease after 40, a new study shows.

About 37 percent of all hospitalization days in the under 40 group were due to mental illness, the researchers noted. Mood and psychotic disorders were the most common conditions. Mood disorders includes depression, bipolar depression and self-harm. Psychotic disorders include delusions, hallucinations and schizophrenia, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

MONDAY, Feb. 4, 2019 -- Certain bacteria dwelling in the human gut might feed depression, according to a new study that adds evidence to the theory.

Researchers found that among over 2,100 adults, those with depression showed differences in specific groups of gut bacteria. And people with higher concentrations of certain other gut bugs generally reported better mental well-being.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19, 2018 -- Jen Godfrey couldn't shake the "deep cloud" that lingered even after she found an antidepressant she could tolerate.

Then a string of stressors hit -- five years of fertility treatment and an 80-pound weight gain during pregnancy that left her with persistent pain; a close relative's suicide; another who went missing; and her own divorce. It was all too much for Godfrey, a recovering alcoholic with a family history of depression.